jagracey

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JS Dev CEO @ https://getwisdom.io

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Comment · 7 years ago

Commented above, but to follow up from yesterday, here is the next post.

"Hacking GitHub with Unicode" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21693550

Comment · 7 years ago

Just posted another Unicode article to HN. "Hacking GitHub with Unicode"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21693550

Comment · 7 years ago

211 of the top 500 domains (https://moz.com/top500) contain the letter 'i' within them. It may be worth checking out if they are also susceptible to the Turkish dotless 'i' problem.

Comment · 7 years ago

I agree. I'll be releasing an article about this tomorrow. There are in-fact many security ramifications that have not been solved in practice.

Comment · 7 years ago

Static Version: https://wisdom.engineering/awesome-unicode/amp/

Comment · 7 years ago

Thanks for catching. It's a fairly complex subject matter- and particularly hard get extra eye balls willing to check for typos.

- String length is typically measured in code units. - Funny enough, with Unicode normalization, multiple diacritics can be reduced into a single code point.

Comment · 7 years ago

For exploration, additionally I'd recommend http://shapecatcher.com/ It allows you to draw the shape you are looking for, and with some form of ML, sorts by similarity. It has come in handy a few times for finding the characters I'm unable to describe.

Comment · 7 years ago

Just a quick and scrappy "Ghost" blog running on a $5 Digital Ocean droplet with the usual analytics.

Comment · 7 years ago

The Emoji emoji modifiers are pretty cool. - Skin color modifiers - Character combiners: - man [ZWJ] woman [ZWJ] boy [ZWJ] girl === family of 4

Comment · 7 years ago

Unicode reverse character:

'hello \u{202e} world'; 'hello dlrow' // Visual equivalent